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This will probably end without anything that helps the overwhelming majority of North Koreans, but I’ll gladly admit that I’m wrong if Trump’s posturing this last year actually succeeds in bringing Kim to the negotiating table in a meaningful way.

Well, that would be getting off the Korean peninsula and basically ignoring the Kims’ bluster. If we are going to be involved then I would like to see us try and improve the lives of one of, if not the most oppressed populations on the planet in some meaningful way.

if anyone is oppressing the people of North Korea, it’s that Kim family of fat-asses.

They and their ancestors are the ones who are entirely to blame for the dismal situation there, not the United States and not Seoul. They are the ones who started the civil war in the first place, and they’re the ones who refuse to accept the fact that they will never succeed in their goal of spreading their version of Marxist/Stalinist/Leninism across the entire peninsula.

The only real solution to the problem there is the same as it was for the old Soviet Union: that little fat-ass needs to give it up, step down, dissolve their own little iron curtain, and allow his own people to enjoy the peace and prosperity that they deserve.

I can’t speak for LynchPin, but I’m fairly certain he was saying he hopes that we can help them in some way, not that it’s our fault directly. But it is consistent with your personality that you would immediately go into a huffy-fit out of fear of criticism, and then restate obvious facts.

I’m fairly certain he was saying he hopes that we can help them in some way

Ummm, I actually understood that quite perfectly. So now I’m going to say to you exactly what I said to him in my initial response: that’s not Donald Trump’s main job that he was elected for.

If in fact he is somehow able to help out the citizens of North Korea in some way that’s awesome, BUT, 1) his ability to do that on his own is rather limited, and 2) that goal takes a distant back-seat to his primary job, which is to do what is best for the people of THIS country.

Are you done now, or do you want to keep doing this silly around and around and around dance?

And so your point is basically insipid. You agree with what was originally wrote, but you wrote a rambling attack against him because you believe he was too happy about the idea that something good might happen to foreigners?

Unemployment is still BS numbers because they stopped counting millions of people who quit looking for work. Maybe they re-entered the workforce or maybe they work off the grid like homemakers and such.

^ This. I have no idea why the media continues to use the objectively worse measure. Honestly, I’m surprised they’re not using the more accurate numbers during the Trump administration but maybe that’s a bridge too far even for them.

I can’t imagine what they plan to do with this. Reality TV is popular because viewers enjoy making fun of the idiots on the show, and BO won’t abide that. It would have to be some sort of autohagiography which almost no one would watch.

If by “almost no one would watch”, you mean “every Team Blue fan in the US”, you’re exactly right.

For the poor dears traumatized by the Age of MAGA, Obama TV would be an emotional safe space where they can curl up with their cat and a cup of tea and pretend all’s well in the world. It would be a hit.

They will ‘produce’ shows, which likely means popping in at the beginning and end with a voiceover, and doing a few ads for it. At most, there will be an exploratory doc series which the Obamas loosely ‘host,’ again largely meaning voiceovers and a few shots of them. Except for the premiere episode, which will be the two of them going out to interview people and junk; the rest of the episodes will be helmed by normies.

In the second episode, Michelle enters an arm wrestling competition, Barrack starts working on his Woke Beer only to discover it already exists, and Obama’s Kenyan brother gives Sasha a shawl made from a “miniature leopard” he ambushed on the neighbor’s porch.

Barack discovers that he has unwittingly come into possession of an unusual book and a phone. Oddly Hillary Clinton just stops by after he discovers the book and seems to know an awful lot about it. As the story progresses, it’s gradually revealed by Hillary that if Barack writes a name, date and time, and method of death in the book and then calls her on the phone, the death will actually happen. Hillary consistently eggs him to pen names in the book.

As a backdrop, outside the walled city that they all live in, a massive orange-haired Titan randomly appears and tears down walls. Letting the roving hordes of bumbling AR-15 toting deplorables into the city. Being too deplorable to give actual names to them, Clinton and Obama are powerless to prevent the fall/overrun of the city.

“Welcome to ‘Due Process with Barack Obama!’ Every week, our Nobel Peace Prize Winning Constiutional Scholar secretly picks a lucky American as this week’s Imminent Threat! You’ll have a front-row seat as this week’s lucky winner gets blown to pieces by drone .. together with his friends, family, and anyone else in the vicinity. It’s loads of laughs, thrills and spills … and collateral damage, too! And remember….it’s all constitutional…because Barry said so!

But broadcasting is just the beginning of the county’s plans. The next iteration of the pilot program, expected to launch by year’s end, will allow users to report crimes directly to their smart speakers. After that, Flanagan imagines that Alexa might be used not just by civilians, but internally by officers for briefings and important information. “The cop [would] be able to say ‘Give me the warrant details for Joe Blocks,’ and then it would read back that person’s warrant and details and send the information to the offices mobile device that they have on their person,” Flanagan told Gizmodo.

So Amazon will basically be the British police. I’m sure the NSA is pretty grateful for this!

A more excellent collection of cherry picking, Texas sharpshooting, and treating correlation as causation would be hard to find. As we all know, big business and big government are best friends, so it’s not surprising that leftists are coming to love the former as they love the latter.

The left hated Big Business when they weren’t in complete control as cultural gatekeepers. Now that they’ve managed to insinuate their way into corporations via “Diversity Departments” and other such nonsense, they’re learning to love corporatism and the centralizing power it represents.

I always point out to my fellow gays that Chik-Fil-A treats their gay employees far better than McDonald’s or any other major fast food chain. The Chik-Fil-A owners actually live by most of the good Christian principles and rovide better pay and benefits than basically any other chain regardless of race or sexual orientation, but “GASP” they once personally opposed gay marriage, just like 70% of the country did 20 years ago.

But those other chains put rainbows on everything once a year and have gays in their commercials so they’re totally super awesome!

People don’t care about actions or deeds, they only care about feel-good virtue signalling.

Somebody who knows somebody who knows Trump spoke with RUSSKIS!!!!!!!!!!!

“Robert Mueller reportedly has evidence that Trump transition team tried to establish secret Kremlin back channel ” […] “Prince was never officially part of Trump’s transition, but frequently communicated with its members and served as an unofficial representative for it, according to investigators. He’s also the younger brother of Trump’s Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.”http://www.nydailynews.com/news /politics/trump-transition-establish -kremlin-back-channel-mueller-article -1.3862157

I’m certainly glad the Daily News is willing to connect the dots for me!

I don’t hate Obama. I think he was just a typical sleazy politician but with mostly a good heart, who was a bad/mediocre president. He was a lot like Bush, who was also a nice well-meaning guy, but incompetent and disastrously naive.

What I hate is the fucking Messiah-complex the media has with Obama. They can’t handle the fact that he was just a mediocre president who fucked up nearly everything he touched, and took some of Bush’s worst policies and made them even worse. They have to make him him into the greatest president ever, who could do no wrong, which is fucking nonsense.

But that’s mostly not Obama’s fault. It is our pathetic excuse for a news media’s fault.

I disagree. I really liked Obama. He was a relentless proponent of free speech, and consistently reminded us not to trade our civil liberties for ‘protection’. Also he held the line against military expansion better than Bush or Trump. This was not easy! Because of him, the country was resilient and better able to #resist.

He talked a big game, but his actions were the exact opposite of the wonderful rhetoric he said. Trump is the opposite. His words are insane and ridiculous and his rhetoric is arguably dangerous, but when it comes to actually using his institutional power to intimidate the press and shut down stories, he still isn’t as bad as Bush or Obama. And Trump hasn’t started bombing any new countries or overthrown any more dictators yet, unlike Obama.

“Also he held the line against military expansion better than Bush or Trump.”

Ya Allah, that’s some wonderful satire there. You ALMOST sound like perfect satire of an Obama Worshiper. Except the Dems are pro-war now, so pretending Obama was anti-war exposes the fact that your post is satirical.

It’s not that they are rethinking how good his presidency was. It is that they claim to now regret that they didn’t just portray him as a naive and incompetent fool, which was the case. They made him out to be an evil Hitler-esque villain who threatened the very foundations of America. I forget where I saw it, but a college professor asks his class every year if Bush or Stalin killed more people, and most choose Bush. When asked who was more evil between Saddam and Bush, a majority either say they were the same or Saddam was less evil.

They made the similar mistakes with Romney, who is by all measures a pretty nice guy and a good person. Look at how they treat McCain now, who used to be just as evil as Bush when he ran for president.

The Democrats, worse than Republicans in the last 20 years, do not just disagree with the opposite party. They have to make them out to be evil Nazis who will literally murder your family and who want to carry out a genocide of every non-white person on the planet.